Re: [libreoffice-users] anyone knows how to find/replace not-printable glyphs?

Le mardi 15 mars 2016 à 21:32 +0000, libreoffice
-ml.mbourne@spamgourmet.com a écrit :
> Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> > I have a problem with a old book text file.  There are 3 or more
> > lines
> > between paragraphs.  I want to reduce them down to only one.
> >
> > When I turned the option to view non-printed characters, I get the
> > "PI-ish" looking symbol - ¶ - that is at the end of every
> > paragraph.
> > Each extra line has that symbol as its first character.  The
> > character
> > listed in the last line of this text looks like the non-printing
> > character, but must be different from it, since it gives a "no
> > match
> > found" error when using it.
>
> It's just represented like that when showing non-printing characters;
> it's not actually inserted as that character (which is itself a 
> printable character).
>
> > So, is there a way to use that end of paragraph symbol/character to
> > look
> > for three in a row and replace it with only two?  Since some of the
> > paragraphs have more than 3 extra lines between paragraphs, I could
> > run
> > that find/replace several times.  All I want to show is the symbol
> > at
> > the end of the paragraph and the one between paragraphs.  Since
> > there
> > are at least 300 pages to the book - in text format - it would not
> > be
> > practicable to do this manually.
>
> I haven't been able to easily find a way to search for consecutive 
> paragraph breaks. However, you can find empty paragraphs by searching
> for "^$" (without the quotes), and ticking "Regular expressions"
> under 
> "Other options". Leave "Replace With" blank and click "Replace All",
> and 
> all the empty paragraphs will be removed.
>
> I don't know if that helps, since it will remove all empty
> paragraphs, 
> not just those where there are 3 or more together. Unfortunately 
> searching for "$^$^" doesn't seem to work to find 2 consecutive empty
> paragraphs...
>
> Why do you want to leave 2 consecutive paragraph breaks anyway? If
> it's 
> to get the spacing, you should remove the extra blank paragraphs and
> add 
> the spacing by setting the spacing above/below paragraph in the 
> paragraph formatting (or even better, in a paragraph style which is 
> applied to the appropriate paragraphs).
>
> > Actually, I am trying to fix a bad .epub book.  I found that if I
> > convert it to a text file and the convert it back to an e-book
> > format,
> > most of the formatting issues go away when viewing it with my
> > tablet's
> > .epub readers [Nook and Pocketbook].
>
> Before going too far with the spacing above/below paragraph, you
> might 
> want to check that it actually gets applied when converted into .epub
> format. I'd have thought it should, but you never know.
>
> > So has anyone tried to do something like this, removing blank
> > paragraphs, i.e. blank lines between paragraphs, as an automatic
> > find/replace option?
If you need to search and replace paragraph marks and others, you can
use AltSearch (http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/alter
native-dialog-find-replace-for-writer). If have it installed on LO5.1
and it works fine. You look for two end of paragraph characters (select
from the drop-down or type in \p\p)
 and replace with just one; repeat until there no more replacements.
Cheers!
Rémy Gauthier.
> -- 
> Mark.

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